Slavery in the United States

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 14: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on August 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is expected to issue a proclamation on the 90th anniversary of Social Security and highlight his administration's efforts on the program. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

CLOAK AND DAGGER

Trump Goons Launch Sneaky Operation to Scrub History Exhibit

The sneaky op follows a federal appeals court’s ruling earlier this month.

Vic Verbalaitis

Clay Travis

Fox Pundit Compares Slavery to Plane Crashes in Absurd Rant

President Donald Trump fumed this week that the Smithsonian dwells on “how horrible our Country is, how bad slavery was.”

Erkki Forster

Daguerreotypes showing (L-R): a Congo slave named Renty, who lived on B.F. Taylor's plantation, "Edgehill"; Jack, a slave from the Guinea Coast (ritual scars decorate his cheek); and an unidentified man.

Harvard Yields After Legal Battle Over its Slave Photos

The university is handing pictures taken during a vile pseudoscience “study” in 1850 over to a South Carolina Museum.

Tom Sanders

Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana.

South’s Biggest Antebellum Mansion Mysteriously Burns

Police are still probing why an enslaver’s 53,000 square foot house was reduced to rubble.

Kenneal Patterson

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Awarded Rank of General for Civil War Raid

The legendary Underground Railroad conductor was the first woman to lead a wartime military action in the U.S.

Janna Brancolini

A boat carrying the Afrorigens expedition team sails past the mouth of the Bracuí River, where the shipwreck was discovered, near the island of Cunhambebe Mirim.

How Researchers Found a Slave Trafficker’s Long-Lost Ship

The exact location of the ship’s remains was unknown for nearly 200 years.

Amanda Yen